Plus: Cast-iron cookware for sale at Best Made; Joe's World Trade Center café got pushed back; Community Board 1 endorses closing a street for the new school.
Also on Community Board 1's May agendas: Plans for White Street restaurant and Santos Party House; Hubert Street parking; Warren Street Dog Run; big new building on Canal; Brooklyn Bridge concession; sidewalk café on Chambers; much more. / 4 comments
Plus: Community Board 1 votes against four street fairs (but allows its own); film attendance is down at the Tribeca Film Festival; hope for two-way tolls on the Verrazano Bridge; the life of a food-cart vendor. / 16 comments
Plus: Work in the former Almond restaurant space; Artists & Fleas opening a 10,000-square-foot Soho store; illegal intercity bus activity; World Trade Center pedestrian plaza; no Community Board 1 recap.
Chinatown residents have persuaded the NYPD's 5th Precinct to do something about the pervasive problem. But is the solution replicable here? / 6 comments
Plus: The candidates vying for Margaret Chin's City Council seat; the pros and cons of film/TV shoots.
Plus: Five Boro Bike Tour notices; book swap at Torly Kid; Billy Bragg in concert; 1 Beekman is rising above street level; Chinese restaurant seeks beer-and-wine license.
Plus: Photos of the new Nobu in FiDi; renovation at Lower Manhattan's only hospital; Canal Street topper approved; Tribeca Ball photos; antiques at Gary Graham; top daiquiri; CB1 feeling ignored by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. / 5 comments
The New York State Liquor Authority has revoked Panagiotis Kotsonis's liquor license for Remix, the club at 27 Park Place that has long antagonized neighbors (most recently by hosting an illegal strip club). / 3 comments
Also on Community Board 1's April agendas: A second try for the Roc space; beer-and-wine license for the Truffles convenience store; Khe-Yo sidewalk seating; changing the direction of Beaver Street; new windows on Worth Street; much more. / 4 comments
Plus: Clarification from David Bouley; Community Board 1 street fair on Warren Street; 21-foot-long photo at Soho Photo; psychic setting up shop on Franklin. / 14 comments
Walked by this morning, it’s no longer there — K / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
This is exactly the behavior that brought about Seattle’s downfall. Allowing encampments to completely take over the city by way... — D / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
He's since built a new camp along the fence on the east side of the park, just past the driveway... — C / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
I don't believe allowing people to choose to sleep on the street, especially those with mental illness or substance abuse... — N / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
Here we go…just wait until nyc is covered in skid row type encampments that the nypd has zero power to... — Matt / Encampment set up on Park Row and Beekman
would love to try! is Meadow Lane the only place to find? — Les / Made in Tribeca: Emmy Eats
That ugly orange tarp on the sidewalk has also been there for ages, and it creates a chokepoint when walking... — Tribeca Dad / Nosy Neighbor: What’s going on along Broadway south of Worth?